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RIDGEFIELD, Conn. The Ridgefield Library has started making its move to its temporary home on Governor Street.
Armed with a master list that took months to compile, Ridgefields librarians combed through the more than 113,000 book collection, picking out the ones that would be making the move.
We didnt want to just cut out a whole section, Mary Rindfleisch, assistant director of the Ridgefield Library, said. The department heads wanted to have at least some items from each section.
Books from the list were put spine down on the shelves to let the movers know they're going to Governor Street. The rest, Rindfleisch said, would be packed, in order, into boxes and stowed away for the next 18 months.
The task of packing, moving and unpacking is enormous, which is why the library went with a professional company rather than use volunteers, Rindfleisch said. She added that every library they spoke to that has moved in the last decade used the William B. Meyer moving company.
For the next two weeks, the Meyer company will be assisting the library, including moving the shelving to make sure everything is in order when the library reopens in its temporary home on Sept. 4.
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